ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,234, issued on April 15, was assigned to HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LP (Spring, Texas).

"Printing modes with drying delays" was invented by Peter Morovic (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain) and Jan Morovic (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain examples relate to a method of a method of printing an image which comprises determining image data for an image to be printed onto a substrate, the image data comprising application amounts of one or more colorants to be applied to the substrate. A print mode is determined for applying the colorants to the substrate and comprises a plurality of application passes each for applying ...